Norman

Norman family page

This is a family of very long standing in Jersey, still present in significant numbers today

Mrs Norman photographed by Ernest Baudoux in the 19th century

Record Search

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Origin of Surname

The original Norman undoubtedly came from Normandy, and there could, of course, have been several who were given this name separately. Whether the first Norman in Jersey was given this name after his arrival, or while still in France, to distinguish him from nearby Bretons, will never be known.

Early records

The name appears in the Assize Roll of 1309 and Michel Norment is listed in the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550

Edmund Norman was born before 1514 in Jersey, the son of Jean. He married Chierotte Blampied. Although Edmund Norman and his family lived in the southern part of the parish of Trinity, his grandson Jean moved to the easternmost part of St Saviour in about 1640, to a house called La Davisonnerie. The family remained there for two centuries. The house was rebuilt for James Norman in 1803. Members of the family married heiresses to the Payn, Anquetil and Messervy families.

Variants

• Norman, 12c
• Le Normand 1461
• Normaunt
• de Normandie c1340
• Le Normaunt 1309
• Le Norman
• Normand 1299
• Normant
• Normannus 12c
• La Normand 1309
• Norment
• Normant
• Lenormand

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of Daniel Norman and Anne Le Cornu
• Descendants of Jean Normand
• Descendants of Jean Norment
• Descendants of Amice Norman
• Descendants of Philippe Norman
• Descendants of Jean Norman - 2
• Descendants of Philip Norman Added 2021

Church records

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• Norman baptisms in Jersey
• Norman marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Norman marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Norman burials in Jersey

Family histories

• The Normans of St Lawrence
• John Anquetil Norman

Great War service

• Norman family members who served in World War 1
• Madeleine and Bob Norman

Family wills

• Norman family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

• Norman burial records 1820-1978

Prominent family members

• Brigadier John Anquetil (Bill) Norman (1909-1994), first commander of the King's Troop, Royal Artillery
• Jurat James Messervy Norman, president of the Transport committee during the Occupation
• Daniel Norman Viscount of Jersey

Family houses

• Greenhill, St Lawrence
• Crossbow House, Trinity
• La Chesnaie, St John

Family businesses

Philippe Alfred Norman (1853-1936), who emigrated to New Zealand in the 1870s and married Elizabeth Harold (1853-1927) in Ashburton, Canterbury, in 1882, was a carpenter who became a major building contractor, responsible for numerous bridges throughout Canterbury, and for moving this building in Ashburton in 1894. It was the Ashburton Convent, the largest building in the town at the time. Philippe and Elizabeth had four children

• Norman's
• Rachel Norman was a draper at 16 King Street in the 1840s
• Norman and Co were drapers at 49 King Street in the 1880s
• Charles Norman was a master draper at 6 Broad Street in the 1870s
• Builders' merchants at Commercial Buildings

Family photographs

This magnificent photograph is of the wedding of Elsie Markham Norman ^[1] and John Blampied ^[2], standing to her left, in 1912. On the right are her mother and father, Elizabeth Jane, nee Corbel and John Norman. Also in the photograph are her brothers John Sydney and Donald Philip and sisters Ella May ^[3] and Muriel Gladys. It has not been possible to ascertain at which church the marriage took place, but we suspect that it was a Methodist ceremony. Elsie's father John was Constable of Trinity from 1887 to 1890 and later lived with his family at Crossbow House, Trinity. However, he is known to have died in 1897, 15 years before his daughter's marriage, and his appearance in the wedding photograph is clearly the result of some photographic manipulation long before the days of Photoshop

Ministers and lay preachers of the Methodist French Circuit in 1867, including P Norman. The picture was taken by Asplet and Green a year after they set up in business at 18½ Beresford Street and also includes P Tourgis, Philippe Amy, P Le Gresley, Thomas J Desprès, Mr Ahier, Mr Benest, P Garnier, Mr Hamon, D Bisson, G Le Masurier, Abraham Pallot, J Syvret, P G Adair, G Skelton, T Binet, T Billot, Mr Vautier, E de Carteret, W Le Duc, T Lucas, H Collas and J Le Cornu

Family gravestones

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Tips

The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.

We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling

The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.

New records

Since August 2020 we have added several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form

Notes and references

1. ↑ It has proved very difficult to trace the ancestry of Elsie Norman. Her father John (1846-1897) married Elizabeth Jane Corbel (1864-1954) in St Martin in 1883. All that is known of his parents is that they were Philippe Norman and Rachel Marcam Baler. We have found no record of their marriage, nor baptism records which can positively be linked to either of them
2. ↑ We have so far not been able to identify either of John Blampied's parents
3. ↑ Ella Norman married George Francis Simon (1879-1924)